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by Stuart Woods
One night at Elaine's, Stone Barrington - 'back in Manhattan after chasing
down the bad guys in the Caribbean' - meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his
sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton's career in army intelligence is
even more top secret than his brother's, but he's suffering from amnesia
following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose
memory is chockful of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton's
back.
As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and
restoring antique furniture. The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at
first seems a far cry from Stone's usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and
spies. But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particular - in
the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier - is coming back to haunt
his present in ways he'd never expected. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and
some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a
few forged antiques.
"Series fans will find all their expectations nicely fulfilled." - Publishers Weekly.
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Stuart Woods is the author of more than ninety novels, including the New York Times–bestselling Stone Barrington series. He was a native of Georgia and began his writing career in the advertising industry. Chiefs, his debut in 1981, won the Edgar Award. An avid sailor and pilot, Woods lived in New Mexico, Florida, and Maine. He died in July 2022 aged 84.
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